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Brown demands: Take out Bin Laden

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

GORDON Brown sent a tough challenge to Pakistan yesterday to step up action against the al-Qaeda terror network and "take out" its leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman Z

• Gordon Brown to announce 500 more British troops for Afghanistan - The Guardian
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Gordon Brown demands Pakistan 'take out' Osama bin Laden

Times Online (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Gordon Brown told Pakistan to “take out” Osama bin Laden yesterday as Western frustration at its failure to capture the al-Qaeda leader burst into the public glare.

UK News: PM to announce extra Afghan troops

icWales (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Gordon Brown is set to confirm that Britain is sending an extra 500 troops to Afghanistan after the conditions he placed on the reinforcement were met.

Uganda’s Gay Final Solution

Cynical-C Blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

From the Times Online: Britain and Canada protested yesterday over a proposed law that would result in gays in Uganda being imprisoned for life or even executed. Gordon Brown followed Stephen Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister, in telling Uganda that the legislation was unacceptable. Mr Brown made his views plain in a breakfast ...

• Uganda proposes death penalty for HIV positive gays - Audacity Of Hypocrisy & Deception

Blue Peter stops Gordon Brown from banning under-14s from TV

Times Online (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

It has survived a cocaine scandal, incontinent elephants and vandals in its world-famous garden, so perhaps the odds were always against Blue Peter being sunk by Gordon Brown.

Cowen to meet Brown amid fears over Assembly future

The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

TAOISEACH BRIAN Cowen is to meet British prime minister Gordon Brown in London this evening against growing concern that the impasse over policing and justice could precipitate the collapse of the Northern Executive and Assembly.

Who is David Cameron? Many things. But an ordinary kinda guy he's not | Madeleine Bunting

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

For all the Tory leader's efforts at empathy, he is naive to think he can ever really understand how most people live There is plenty about David Cameron which sets my teeth on edge, but with probably less than six months before he is likely to arrive in Downing Street, I thought it well past time to consider the character of the man. Not just the Bullingdon Club, the fox hunting, the family fortunes,...

Britain Presses Pakistan and Afghanistan on Militants

New York Times (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Prime Minister Gordon Brown demanded that Afghanistan and Pakistan match plans for increased allied troop levels in Afghanistan by taking tough actions of their own.

Ministers urged to promise early ballot on voting reform

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

Cabinet supporters of an early referendum on reform of the voting system for the Westminster parliament will tomorrow renew their efforts to commit Labour to include an early ballot in legislation certain to be passed before next year's general election. If ministers at the cabinet's democratic renewal committee (DRC) agree to raise the stakes in their tussle with the Conservatives over electoral...

EU accused of risking Copenhagen climate talks with stance on aid funding

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

Confidential papers reveal Europeans want assistance for poorer countries to come from existing cash pot The EU was accused of threatening the global climate talks last night after confidential papers showed it wants existing overseas aid funding to be used to help poor countries adapt to global warming, not new and additional funds. The papers, seen by the Guardian, show that the EU has removed lines...

It's time for some answers

Prawn Free Lembit (Free subscription) | yesterday

SIX years, 179 lost soldiers and thousands of dead civilians after it began, we may finally be on the verge of getting some clarity about the UK’s ill-fated expedition into Iraq. On Wednesday, the public inquiry into why we went to war finally got underway. Top spies, government advisors, military chiefs, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown will be giving evidence. The hot issue will be why the government...

Commonwealth vetoes Sri Lanka bid to hold 2011 gathering

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

Sri Lanka has been blocked from hosting the next meeting of Commonwealth leaders in protest at Colombo's military repression against the Tamil population earlier this year. Australia will instead host the next biennial Commonwealth heads of government meeting in 2011 after Canberra and London joined forces to block the Sri Lankan bid. The decision, made at the summit in Trinidad and Tobago over the...

Find Osama Bin Laden, Gordon Brown urges Pakistan

Yahyasheikho786's Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Gordon Brown has told the BBC that Pakistan must do more to “break” al-Qaeda and find Osama Bin Laden. Questions must be asked about why nobody had been able “to spot or detain or get close to” the al-Qaeda leader, the prime minister said. He said he wanted to see “more progress in taking out” Bin Laden [...]

Pakistan challenged to find bin Laden

PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Times: Gordon Brown told Pakistan to “take out” Osama bin Laden yesterday as Western frustration at its failure to capture the al-Qaeda leader burst into the public glare. With America and Britain seeking support for their decisions in the next two days to send tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan, Mr Brown told the Pakistani leadership that it had not done enough to catch the men...

Rich pickings

Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

REGARDING Gordon Brown's generous offer (your report, 28 November), on the taxpayer's behalf, of some £800 million to contribute to a multi-billion fund to hel

Royal Bank of Scotland "accepts responsibility" in Coutts Bank $1,000,000,000 Charities Fraud - FBI SOCA Carroll Case

carrolltrust | 24/09/2009

Royal Bank of Scotland Coutts Bank named as the primary offshore financial centre of operations in the Carroll Trust international criminal syndicate case, now the subject of major criminal allegations of conspiracy to defraud racketeering money laundering in Britain's longest running largest organised criminal conspiracy corruption case. Lord Home Chairman of RBS Coutts and the newly appointed chief

Manifesto for change

rex6666 | 30/06/2009

A few months ago, the BBCs Top Gear and Sun columnist Jeremy Clarkson , unveiled his manifesto for running Britain as PM. And since then we've had a string of celebrities contemplate running as independent MPs in wake of the scandalous MPs expenses saga, first broken by the Telegraph newspaper . Yesterday Gordon Brown was trying to reclaim the political agenda by announcing a raft of measures on social...

51 MPs sign Autism and the Carer's Allowance motion in the House of Commons, UK

autismnews | 30/06/2009

British Parliamentarians of all parties in the House of Commons in Westminster have backed an early day motion on Autism and the Carer's Allowance. EDM 1551 was tabled by Lee Scott MP who has been campaigning tirelessly in the House of Commons on autism and Asperger's Syndrome. Autism campaigners in the United Kingdom have been urging the Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Government to increase the...